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This subreddit is dedicated to the best selling video game console in history, Sony's Playstation 2We are all about the games, discussions, news, questions or suggestions related to the PS2. Tell us what you love(d) about it, what game you hated, when you first got your system, or if you're completely new to it!Remember, 'Live in your world, play in ours!' Looking for interesting games?.NEW!! Game of the Month - June 2018:.NEW.Notice about Sony DNAS shutdownOn March 31st, 2016 at 14:00 GMT, Sony shut down their official DNAS servers for the PS2. This affects any games that use the service to authenticate for online play for first and third party servers. Games such as Battlefront 1 & 2, COD:BRO, FFXI and MGSO, among others, may not be able to connect to any online functionality.Wondering how to play backups on your system?
Look here!.This guide covers both PS2 backups through OPL and PS1 backups through POPStarter!FreeMcBoot / Softmodding Information.Install FreeMcBoot Yourself.Install FreeMcBoot onto an Internal Hard Drive.Or, skip softmodding it yourself altogether. Buy a memory card with a complimentary installation of FreeMcBoot v1.95 for $10 US!
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Please report any bots you may see as they will help us get rid of them. There are lots of options and instructions out there for setting up OPL and running games from a hard drive installed into a PS2 FAT, but many of them are old or recommend outdated tools, and almost all of them are dependent on using a Windows PC. As a Mac user I wanted a process I could do without access to Windows.
This guide shows a path to a fully functioning PS2 with a hard drive that can be followed by Mac or Linux users. I'm focusing on Mac but the steps should be basically the same for Linux. Goals:. End result is a soft-modded PS2 and the ability to load ISOs onto it via a Mac or Linux PC. This guide never require booting into Windows or having access to a Windows PC. Where Windows software is unavoidable, I only use Windows software that runs simply and easily via WINE.LimitationsThere are several things many other guides will suggest that we can't do on a Mac:.
There is no way I've been able to find to read/write to a PS2 formatted HDD over USB/SATA on a Mac. This rules out some popular tools like WinHIIP. Because we won't be able to copy games over USB/SATA we'll need a good way to copy them to the PS2 over Ethernet. This means we NEED BOTH a working Ethernet port AND and a working hard drive in our PS2 at the same time.
This is why I suggest modding an official network adapter to accept SATA drives. (You could also do everything in this guide with an unmodified network adapter and an IDE hard drive, but I wouldn't recommend it.). We are limited to tools that work on Mac natively or via WINE. Many popular tools like HDLDump Helper GUI don't work correctly via WINE on Mac. Nice tutorial! I'm sure there are some people this will help.I think this might be an easier way however:1.
Install Virtualbox2. Install Windows XP (which is now free) or another version of windows you have laying around to a Virtual Machine3. Connect the PS2 Hard Disk to the host machine via USB as normal4. Use USB Passthrough on Virtualbox to pass the drive directly through to Windows XP guest5. Use WinHiip on XP as usualI haven't tested this method with PS2 HDDs, but it is the same method I use for my N64 Dexdrive (save backup manager) which only has drivers for Windows XP and nothing after. This might be simpler, but YMMV.
Thanks, this might be an alternative for some folks, but I’m not sure tools like WinHiip play well with VMs in all cases. I can say that trying WinHiip on Windows 10 via Parallels didn’t work for me. Also that leaves you relying on some pretty old and (AFAIK) unmaintained software.
The software I’m using in this guide is all in active development, which helps. HDLGameInstaller was updated as recently as this month!The above tutorial may seem like a lot of steps but when it gets down to it it’s as simple as double clicking an app, launching an ELF on my PS2, and starting a transfer. No unscrewing and pulling out drives or wrangling SATA to USB adapters and VMs required. So IMHO its relatively easy:For documentation you can use:The source can be found at.You will need XCode to build it. For instructions you can check the README.mdFor simple injection of a game you need to follow these steps:. Attach HDD using an S-ATA Adaptor. Open Terminal.
run 'diskutil list' do identify the newly added disk. run 'sudo./hdldump toc /dev/diskX' (where X is the disk) to see your current HDD content. run './hdldump cdvdinfo Y.iso' (where Y is your iso file you want to install).
Output./hdldump cdvdinfo Crash Bandicoot - The Wrath of Cortex.iso'SLES503.86' 'CRASH' 512344KB. run 'sudo./hdldump injectdvd /dev/diskX TITLE SLESID.u4' (where TITLE is the name of the game, SLESID is the ID outputted from cdvdinfo).
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